The NRHP site of the former Chicago Beach Hotel that now hosts the Regents Park is also in the neighborhood.[1] The new location of the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue is in this neighborhood.[2]Carol Moseley Braun, former United States Senator and former 2004 Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, once lived in the 5000 East End Building, which was the tallest building on the South Side of Chicago until 1965.[3] The neighborhood hosts the Powhatan Apartments, the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago.[4] Regents Park's South Tower is the tallest building in the Kenwood community area.[5]Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Algonquin Apartments, which are a set of six identical 14-story towers in the neighborhood, and the nearby Chippewa Cooperative Apartments.[6][7][8] When the developer altered these projects' glass-enclosed lobby design, Mies asked that his name be dissociated from both.[9] In 1951, they were completed along with the adjacent The Twin Towers Apartments, which originally housed U.S. Army personnel at the Fifth Army Headquarters.[10]
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↑ Chase, Al (January 7, 1950). "2 Apartment Projects to Be Started Soon". Chicago Daily Tribune.
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↑ Chase, Al (October 28, 1950). "Twin Tower Units to House 5th Army Aids". Chicago Daily Tribune.
↑ Davis, Susan (2013). Chicago's Historic Hyde Park. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p.316.
↑ "Twin Towers Apartments". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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